Eli Craven’s work explores the role of images in processes of socialization, specifically their relationship to identity, death, and desire. The acts of looking and
collecting are central to his process. He gathers imagery and objects from estate sales, secondhand markets, and digital archives, and they are reconfigured to
interrogate the ostensible values of the original. Using photography, sculpture, and collage he creates works aimed at forming narratives that brim with new
possibilities—engaging viewer’s senses with the familiar, the bizarre, the mundane, and the erotic.

A Deep Sense of Conviviality is an index of green plants located in public areas of Shanghai (subways, banks, police stations, museums, official buildings …)The green plants have been precisely geolocated, measured and weighted with the following limitations : if the plant is taller than the artist, will be indicated > 1m68. If the plant is too heavy for the artist to carry, will be indicated > 30 kgs. The color of the plant is named after the closest color on a painting catalogue for living rooms.Pot included in the archival.A Deep Sense of Conviviality ironically questions China’s continual surveillance and police state.

(PHOTO)graphy is a conceptual still life project that re-examines the limitation of photographic image to the representation of reality, by treating photographs as surrealistic objects. When an image is printed on a photo paper, the paper acquire the appearance of the photographed subject and the subject obtain the physical quality of a paper sheets.

Nature has its own unremitting cycle. She needs no settings, no embellishment. But Americans are no ordinary people.
And they did not build such an empire on average representations for satisfactory feelings sake. They hit hard and they went for the extraordinary, the amazing, the incredible. In everything. The amount of adjectives to describes these feelings are as immense as the energy they put in creating such marking settings.

You constantly think, ‘Will the chemotherapy work for this time? Is it worth doing it? Does it make sense to be treated or it is enough? What if you’ll feel yourself unbearable during the chemotherapy and after that?’